Am starting to think Torosidis was never a possibility, a Olympiacos fan at the time we seemed to have signed Torosidis posted that every summer Torosidis threatens to leave and is linked to A, B and C.

I think the only established RB we have a chance at is Santon and the chances are slim there too, the kid seems to like Newcastle so I don't see him leaving so soon

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there's also debuchy. but he's expensive. one of the best upandcoming RB's in the world

I agree with whill, just get Torosidis, 1-2 years and Dodo will (in theory) be injury free, so we transition from Torosidis to Dodo. The few glances I saw of him in that last friendly at the Olimpico were godly and people seem to love him. We just need to buy Dodo some time.

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then we should get someone cheaper. torosidis will cost more than 10m. 10m transfer fee for a 2-season player is not worth it. i don't see how we're transitioning torosidis (RB) to dodo (LB). if anything i believe balzaretti is our transition to dodo. balzaretti has a few good years left with him, and once he declines we have dodo at the helm

then we should get someone cheaper. torosidis will cost more than 10m. 10m transfer fee for a 2-season player is not worth it. i don't see how we're transitioning torosidis (RB) to dodo (LB). if anything i believe balzaretti is our transition to dodo. balzaretti has a few good years left with him, and once he declines we have dodo at the helm

whatever we've got going on at RB shouldn't affect balzaretti/dodo

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Much failure, I had mixed up Dodo's sides.

We could still do some kind of Balzaretti RB switch, but I still think(hope) we can get Torosidis cheaper than 10m.

Unless he has signed an extension within within the past couple of weeks that I haven't read about, Torosidis' contract expires next summer. Almost all of the prices of us linked to him were between 3-5m, it'll be even cheaper in January and free next summer. Not sure where the 10m price tag has came from.

We knew that already, it's been well said that the club wanted to sell Osvaldo to make some money but Zeman was convinced by Osvaldo and told to club to sell someone else, step forward Borini. It seems as if Baldini or Sabatini has a huge man crush on Destro as it would've made more sense to sell Osvaldo and keep Borini if Destro was going to be brought in.

However we have what we have and there's no point making if's and buts, we should just make peace with what we have and hope things progress as planned.